“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

— Oprah Winfrey

The Problem

Allow me a declarative moment – The minute you ask someone to treat you as an equal, you cease to be an equal.

In that sentence lies the failure foundation for the left’s idea of social justice.  

Watching this movement is much like a rerun of “Blade Runner.” The “skin-jobs” were similarly doomed because self-destruction was built into their DNA.

Be it economic, gender or racial equality, the left’s negative narrative and DNA-like indifference to Reality 101 is a deal-breaker. That’s a partial reason this posse is fast dissolving into a convoluted collusion of angry hacktivistic special interest groups.

Nowhere is this disappointing pattern more evident than with the issue of race – especially when the mission has drifted from advancing racial progress to preventing it.  

Allow me to expand.

Racing backwards

Maxine Waters has figured something out. When you’re angry, entitled, vulgar and not very creative, you’d better find a trump card.

Hers is to claim everyone who disagrees with anything she believes is a “racist.”

Per Ms. Water’s constipated view, white people have little else to do than sit around thinking how much we hate non-white people.  

We wake up with color on our mind and go to bed seething at God’s request we share the planet with people who aren’t like us. Everything we think and do is filtered through a color spectrometer that flashes red whenever we bump into anyone who isn’t at least semi-white.

With all that racial OCD in the way, how do we get anything done? I’m probably subconsciously thinking distracting racial hate thoughts right now.

I thought it was just writer’s block.

Takes one to know one?

The truth is racism is alive and well in America and everywhere else in the world – and the people tossing that “racist” line about are frequently some of the worst.

Judging people by simplistic filters like pigmentation is a temptation small minds struggle to resist.

Maxine gives in to the temptation with enthusiasm. Spoiler alert Maxine – if one routinely runs through their building shouting “fire,” the impact will be limited to stirring commotion, scaring people and distracting them from meaningful work.

Someone needs to make Maxine and company aware that good change isn’t that easy. And that there is irony in a political movement that pretends color blindness as they actively work against people of color.

What did he just say?

Did you know that 61 percent of all black deaths are from abortion? That’s marching into genocide territory – and its happening at the hand of those believing the 60 million intercepted lives since Roe v. Wade is a measure of progress.

Do you remember the black president who all those white Americans helped elect? Are you aware that under his watch and that of the Democrat Party the economic standing of black Americans went down – way down – and that the white guy in office today has sent black American prosperity measures dramatically in the opposite direction?

Ponder the parade of liberally run cities across America where black on black crime is killing almost as many young people as abortion clinics.

Is it confusing that under the left’s flag of racial justice, economically pinched black mothers and fathers are compelled to keep their children in failing public schools because Democrat dominated teachers’ unions don’t want to turn loose of their cash cow? 

Theirs is a clear choice to resist allowing funding to follow the best interests of the child versus the best interests of school bureaucracies.

Speaking of black fathers – statistically most of them are AWOL per liberal social welfare policies that have decimated black families since the 1960s. No, it’s not coincidental that this was when the left’s misbegotten “War on Poverty” began. 

Remember when kids of all colors got a summer job to learn a good work ethic and find their bridge to school, a better job and a hopeful future? The left’s open border dedications have allowed us to discard our unneeded youth – of all colors – and thus blown up that bridge. For too many of today’s black teenagers Plan B involves drugs, crime, violence and other taxis to nowhere.  

In short, the left’s policies on race are aimed in the wrong direction and the proof is in the pudding. Though white racism has dropped dramatically since the sixties, black Americans have – by way too many measures – lost ground.

See Oprah quote on A8 for additional clarity.

Picking the right ‘C’ words

Maxine, Hillary and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez have a demonstrated fondness for tossing the ‘racist’ label at anyone standing in their way. May I suggest people who play this card should be shamed as surely as those who use the “N” word? Both are sources of division.

Thank goodness a majority view color judgment as nonsensically offensive and prefer to measure people by their character, choices and culture.

Most of what is routinely attributed to racism actually falls on these three words. It’s just easier to mislabel it as a color thing.  

Discernment of our fellowman on the basis of character, choices and cultural dedications is perfectly sane and ethical. Those are things one can control and thus are fair measures. Color filters? Just the opposite.

Racial solutions?

Start by registering to vote as a Republican. While the left’s idea of ‘big tent’ politics is an increasingly angry mob of antagonistic special interest groups, the Republican Party is rejecting our extremists and joining hands in the interest of plain old normalcy.

Normalcy is a behavioral construct that has no connection to color, age, gender or socio-economic standing. Today’s Republican Party welcomes anyone who rejects the left’s crazy anti-normal notions. We don’t believe poking out the eye is the way to cure blurry vision.

Yes, I know liberals like to say there’s no such thing as normal, God or a 65-year-old Christian conservative Republican white guy who doesn’t hate anybody. Try living with a temperature on either side of 98.6 for a quick validation on the existence of normal.

Regardless of one’s skin color, it’s prudent to double down on choices, character and cultural dedications and skip the idea that equality rests in somebody else’s hands.

I’m also going to say it out loud – today’s black culture is a mess and long past-due for an internal reset. Read up on some Malcom-X – especially toward the end – for a model of how to do it.

Whoops, the left would tell you that my whiteness has found me out in daring to suggest the black culture is unhealthy. In their view all cultures are special. 

For revelation on that madness consider the Southern racist culture of the first half of the last century. Anxious to bring that one back?

A final revelation

There’s a simple reason the left is constantly complaining about everything; running down America; tossing nasty tags out like confetti; and perfecting the art of angry antagonism as a life model. If you can convince the patient he’s ill, maybe he’ll be more willing to accept you as his doctor.

The liberal-progressive-socialist movement’s prime directive is thus demonstrated as power, not improvement. They want control – not to make us better, but to make us mind.

If you’re a black American, you might want to rethink who’s writing your script and the important difference in someone having your back and someone standing on it.

If you’re a white American, skip the color chart and go for the “C” words that matter.

If you’re Maxine, consider medication and an anger management class….

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 Carl Mumpower, a psychologist and former elected official, is chairman of the Buncombe County Republican Party. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .